[Devel] Re: The issues for agreeing on a virtualization/namespaces implementation.

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Feb 8 07:17:26 PST 2006


Quoting Hubertus Franke (frankeh at watson.ibm.com):
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> So it seems the clone( flags ) is a reasonable approach to create new
> namespaces. Question is what is the initial state of each namespace?
> In pidspace we know we should be creating an empty pidmap !
> In network, someone suggested creating a loopback device
> In uts, create "localhost"
> Are there examples where we rather inherit ?  Filesystem ?

Of course filesystem is already implemented, and does inheret a full
copy.

-serge




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